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New 2006 500R Ninja

Postby mickeyd » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:50 am

http://www.kawasaki.com/product_detail.asp?product=22&category=2&tag=motorcycle
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Postby Shifty » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:43 am

Can you say "GS500F"?
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Postby icebreaker » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:54 am

IMO, yuk..

looks like an old gpx or something with a newer fairing.. certainly not my taste.
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Postby HemiDuty » Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:10 am

Yeah it's not real flash.
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Postby Smitty » Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:58 am

its the GPz500r.....
reincarnated!
mate of mine has one
this new one looks better than the old one....
GOTTA LUV the 12R!!
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Postby bonester » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:16 am

Yup that is the old GPZ500R that we used to have in the eighties- still sold in the US. You reckon that is old? In the UK you can still buy a GT550 new! (or at least you could when I was in the UK in 2002) :shock: Maybe London couriers use the old buses? :)
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Postby strutto » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:36 am

I tagged a GPZ500R this morning... That is all...
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Postby Smitty » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:39 am

bonester wrote:Yup that is the old GPZ500R that we used to have in the eighties- still sold in the US. You reckon that is old? In the UK you can still buy a GT550 new! (or at least you could when I was in the UK in 2002) :shock: Maybe London couriers use the old buses? :)


as well as the GT550
the GPZ500r is STILL on sale in the UK
both are being discontinued there at the end of the year
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Postby mrmina » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:03 pm

what an ugly piece of shit
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Postby Nick » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:43 pm

Good to see Kawasaki pushing the envelope ..............
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Postby diesel » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:58 pm

i agree with mina.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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Postby Smitty » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:01 pm

Nick wrote:Good to see Kawasaki pushing the envelope ..............


yep
and with apologies to yankee and others......

the septics are always a few years behind the rest of the world :lol:
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Postby ty » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:13 pm

Looks alright to me.
They make 'new' GPX250's every year too and I don't see any of you complaining about those. This is just a more practical GPX250 and if you think about it it really isn't any newer than a 'new' GPX250.
If it was out here and a LAM I probably would've considered it while learning.
http://www.buykawasaki.com/Site/PCProductCatalog/PCCatItems.asp?intCatalogID=1&CatalogTypeID=4&ProductTypeID=14&ModelMarketingId=165 shows how long it's been around.
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Postby Ratmick » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:35 pm

Shifty wrote:Can you say "GS500F"?

Good comparison, except the Kwakka has water-cooling. It's basically a 3/4 faired ER-5 with a rear disc.
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Postby mike-s » Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:29 pm

And apparently quite a gutsy little motor it's got too!!

From what i can account of history there was initially the gpz900, they lopped the motor in half and made the ltd450 cruiser's. Afterwards they upped it to a 500 and made the LTD500, then they got the motor, tweaked it, whacked it into a sporty frame and made the ninja 500 which has been going since the early 90's at the very least.

Woulda been hell fun to have one on my Provisionals :twisted:
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